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Contributors
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100% of New Dramatists income is contributed through grants, government awards, individuals, two fundraisers, and generous estate gifts. We do not charge writers for any services we offer, nor do we financially participate in their work. All of our artistic events are offered to the public free of charge. We're deeply grateful for our contributors, who understand the value of investing in talented artists and providing them with the fertile ground they need in order to create, take risks, and make bold new theatre.
We strive to ensure our Donor lists are complete and accurate.If you have questions or changes, please contact Development Director Tiffany Baran or call (212) 757-6960.
2018-2019 Season Contributors
$75,000+
Howard Gilman Foundation
Jerome Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
The Shubert Foundation
Jerry A. Tishman Living Trust
$25,000-74,999
Charlotte & David Ackert
The Hearst Foundations
Isobel Konecky
Frederick Loewe Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program in partnership with the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
Princess Grace Foundation-USA
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Bob Boyett
Betsy & Alan D. Cohn Foundation
Janet Cohn Slosberg & Mike Slosberg
Distracted Globe Foundation
Martina Forman
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund
Willy Holtzman & Sylvia Shepard
The John Golden Fund
Jujamcyn Theaters
The Kleban Foundation
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Robin Lynn & Larry Blumberg
Stacey Mindich Productions
David & Susan Rahm
The Shubert Organization
The Ted Snowdon Foundation
Kenneth Stefin
Abbie Van Nostrand
$5,000-9,999
Abrams Artists Agency
Susan Heller Anderson
Anonymous
Axe-Houghton Foundation
The Hilaria & Alec Baldwin Foundation
Dori Berinstein
Allen H. & Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust
Kirsten Berkman & Eric Winikoff
Jim Dale
DeWitt Stern/Jolyon Fox Stern
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman
Frederic W. Cook & Co.
Charles Hyman
Shelby Jiggetts-Tivony
Joey Parnes Productions
Tom Kirdahy
Susan Kraus
Leanne Lachman
The Lilly Awards
Lyndsay Magid
Marks Paneth LLP/Robert Kuchner, Mark D'Ambrosi
Daryl Roth
Sarah Ruhl
Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company
Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham/Nancy A. Rose
Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts
TOOTSIE
John W. Weidman
$2,500-$4,999
Actors' Fund of America
Anonymous (2)
BEETLEJUICE
Bridget Carpenter & Chris Harrison
Creative Artists Agency
Mark D'Ambrosi
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
John Gore Organization
Jeffrey Hatcher & Lisa Stevens
Ken Hitz on behalf of Hitz Foundation
Tim Hopkins
Janover LLC/Joe Maffia, David C. Rosenzweig
Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation
Josephine Merck
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, District 3, Manhattan
Off-Broadway Angels/ Charlotte & David Ackert, Janet Cohn Slosberg & Mike Slosberg, Jane Stanicki
Signature Bank/Thomas Kasulka, Margaret Monigan
Patricia Brown Specter
Temptations Broadway, LLC
William Morris Endeavor (WME)
$1,000-$2,499
Orren Alperstein
Lois Arenson
Dan Aronson
Roger Berlind & William Berlind
Bret Adams Agency Ltd.
City National Bank/Stephanie Dalton
Barbara Freitag
Lisa & Tom Hazen
Jenny Hellman
Sandra Hess
Jerry Heymann
ICM Partners/Patrick Herold
Wolf & Rita Jakubowski
Heni Koenigsberg
Angela Lansbury Shaw/The Corymore Foundation
The Lucille Lortel Foundation
Jill Hunter Matichak
John L. McHugh Foundation
Music Theatre International
Nederlander Organization
Francis Neuwirth
New York Marriott Marquis Hotel
Lynn Nottage
Open Society Foundations
Naomi & Stuart Paley
F. Richard Pappas
Polk & Co.
Joan & Robert Rechnitz
Rodgers & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company
Joel Ruark & Cheryl Pinnow
Jane Safer
SDC/Laura Penn
SpotCo
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
Julie Taymor & Elliot Goldenthal
David & Deborah Trainer
John & Kathy von Hartz
Ronald Wallace & Judy Rasmuson
Daniel & Amilee Watkins
Barry & Fran Weissler
Mac Wellman
West 44th Street Better Block Association
Barbara Whitman
$250-$999
Judith Ann Abrams
Catherine Adler
Bob & Petra Allen
Jenny Ewing Allen
Jill Allgäuer
Jörg Allgäuer
James H. Anderson & Jeanne L. Camin
Liz Armstrong
Robert J.K. Barnett
Jessica Bauman
Neena Beber
Anne L. Bernstein
Beth Blickers/APA Agency
Elliot & Victoria Brown
Elissa Burke & Alec Stais
Javier Bustillos
Luis Castro & Jennifer Gibbs
Helen & Murray Charash
Christian Clinton
Glenn Close
Darrah Cloud & Dave Owens
Lois & Joel Coleman
Cynthia Green Colin
Jason M. Cooper & Liz Mayer
Bob & Dorothy Courtney
Natasha Davison
Scott Delman
Brian Dennehy
Jamie deRoy
Kristoffer Diaz
The Dodgers/Michael David
Tina Dragone
Jane Dubin
Eve Ellis
Ken Fakler
Phyllis & Sam Feder
Sue Feinberg
Karen Fisher
Pam Fisher
Thomas M. Fontana
Roy Furman
Kimberlee Garris
Madeleine George
Nelsa Gidney & Jordan Ringel
The Dan Goggin Nunsense Charitable Trust
Kelly Gonda
Joan Stacke Graham
Rinne Groff & David Becker
Susan Gurman
Leah Hamos
Laura Harrington & David Rosen
Ed Harris & Amy Madigan
Linda Healey
Sally Horchow
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Arlene Hutton
Junkyard Dog Productions
Elizabeth Kaiden
Christina Kenan Kirk
Robert & Fran Kraus
Jack Lane
Riki Kane Larimer
Scott R. Lazarus
Gloria Lemay
Beth Lenke
Hal Luftig
Emily Mann
Donald Margulies & Lynn Street
Isabel Merians
Marlane Meyer
Michael Moore
Lowes Moore
Evan Morse
Qui Nguyen
Ann Nicholas
James Nicholson
Paradigm Talent Agency
James Perakis
Ben Pesner
Shirley E. Pinnow
Playscripts, Inc.
Gwen Poole
Fred Powers
Ron Riley & Cheri Magid
Meredith Robbins
Nancy A. Rose
David Rosenzweig
Jay O. Sanders & Maryann Plunkett
Jocelyn Sawyer
Tim Shepard
Jerry & Beverly Siegel
Abigail Solomon
Diana Son & Michael Cosaboom
Stephen Sondheim
Dan Stone
Robert Sublett & Jennifer Morris
Darius Suyama
Theatre Development Fund
Theatre Forward/Bruce Whitacre
Marsha Tosk & Seymour Ubell
Paula Wagner
Judith Wasserman
Nancy Bendiner & Jim Weiss
Kathryn Williams & Alan Davis
Doris Wyman
Nelda Sue Yaw
Up to $249
Daniel & Mary Abbruzzese
Sara Alcott
Luis Alfaro
AmazonSmile Foundation
Thomas Anawalt
Anonymous
Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
Tala Ashe
Rebecca Ashley
Lynn Bailey & Zach Grenier
John & Tiffany Baran
Lisa Barnes
Jen Barrett
Zeke & Sara Berlin
Brooke Berman
Susan Bernfield
Sara Michelle Bickweat
Peter Birkenhead
Lee Blessing & Melanie Marnich
Michael Bonnabel
Justin Boyd
Sharon Bridgforth
Christie Brown & Gary Sloan
Jim & Rhea Brown
Marylouise Burke
Devin Burnam
Blanca Camacho
Richard Capsuto
Janice Capuana
Cheryl Carruthers
Lonnie Carter
Lenora Champagne
Eugenie A. Chan
Rachel Chavkin
J. Julian Christopher
Mia Chung
Ronald & Lynn Cohen
Jeremy & Michael Cohen-Elyanow
Charlotte Colavin
Sarah Corey
Kate Cortesi
Veanne Cox
Bryan Cranston
Claire Criscuolo
Migdalia Cruz
Michael Cullen
Margot Dale
Blythe Danner
Jeffrey Davis
Mary Anna Dennard
Lisa Dove
Richard Dresser
Clare Drobot
Linda Earle
Erik Ehn
Fiji Theatre Company
Stephanie Fleischmann
Jerise Fogel
Nancy Ford Charles
Matthew Freeman
Naomi Freistadt
Mary Gallagher
Eduardo Garcia
Taylor Geu
Lauren K. Gibbs
Giving Assistant, Inc.
Jeffrey Glatzer
Arlene Goldman
Emma Goldman-Sherman
Franky Gonzalez
Robert Goodman
Morgan Gould
Nina Grossman
Jason Grote
Connie Hall
Bernard & Shirley Handel
Sheldon & Margery Harnick
R. Bruce Harper
Mallory Hawks
J. Heilman
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Annie Henk
Mercedes Herrero
Hannah Hessel
Elizabeth & Steven Hobbs
Janice Hoffman
Maura Hooper
Dr. Robert F. Horowitz
Chisa Hutchinson
Sooyoung Hwang
Bill Irwin
Judith Ivey & Tim Braine
Phyllis Jackson
Betty Jacobs
Sondra James
Tim Jerome
Jana Jevnikar
Kit Jones
Lee Kalcheim
Greg Keller
Elizabeth Kenny
Wendy Kesselman
Brian Mertes & Melissa Kievman
Jeffrey Kindley
Joel Kirk
Michele LaRue Kliewer
Fernando Koatz
Karen Kohlhaas
Julie Kramer
Jessica Kubzansky
Charlotte La Nasa
Rose Lansbury
Antoinette LaVecchia
Naomi Lazarus
Susan LeClair
Richard LeComte & Jennifer Greer
Sophie Lewis
Jana Llynn
Lisa Loomer
Huitzitzilin Lopez
Mark Lutwak & Y York
Ellen Maddow & Paul Zimet
Janet & Dennis Magid
Dorothy Marcic
Deb Margolin
Mark Margolis
Leigh Marshall
Tony Marzani
Raleigh Mayer
Marie McDowell
Mary Kate & Jeff Mellow
Michael Mendelsohn
Emily Morse & Gary Brownlee
Maggie Morse
Susan Mosakowski
Rachel Murdy
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Christianna Nelson
Victoria Nolan
T.J. O'Connor
Dael Orlandersmith
Sylvan Oswald
Tanya Palmer
Jill Paxton
Jose Joaquin Perez
Eric Pfeffinger
Annette Pfister
Richard Price
Amrita Ramanan
Jacquelyn Reingold
Graham Reynolds
Zoë Rhulen
Sung & Helen Rno
Laila Robins
J.T. Rogers
Russ Ruggia
Tammy Ryan
Cara Scarmack
Heidi Schreck
Julie Semel
Betty Shamieh
John Patrick Shanley
Mike Shapiro & Peggy Stafford
William L. Sharfman
Sandi Shaw
Carole Shelley
Janice Simpson
Ray Sipherd
Danielle Slavick & Greg Keller
Lois Smith
Octavio Solis
Steven Somkin & Naomi Spatz
Penny Spiwack
Deborah Stein & Andy Horwitz
Jon & Sydney Stern
Joe Straw
Maria Striar
Katherine Sulkes
Gary Sunshine
Stanley Taikeff
Daniel Therriault
Cori Thomas
Pauline Thome
Daniella Topol
Karen Vastola
John Walch
Sturgis Warner
Tara Welty
Peg Wendlandt
Peregrine Whittlesey
Darnell Williams
Lucy Wilson
Donald & Martha Wollner
Ben Yalom
Stefanie Zadravec
Edward Zareh
Marilyn Zesch
Andrew Zimmerman
Tessa Zugmeyer
2018-2019 Fundraising Efforts
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Core Institutional Support
New Dramatists’ programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State legislature. The Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund is sustained by the Jerry A. Tishman Living Trust. The Fund was founded in 2008 by a lead grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has received additional major support from the Time Warner Foundation and the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Extended musical workshops supported in part by the Frederick Loewe Foundation. Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting New Dramatists. Special thanks to Google for its Ad Grant, which provides in-kind AdWords advertising to promote New Dramatists’ mission, writers and events on Google search result pages.
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Legacy Gifts
LEGACY GIVING AT NEW DRAMATISTS
New Dramatists is deeply grateful for those who elected to support our work through estate gifts and the assignment of estate intellectual property royalties. This support has, over the decades, provided crucial support for this organization and allowed us to keep the pressure of ticket sales outside the walls of our Church.
BEQUEST PLEDGES
Jerry A. Tishman
In addition to a leadership-level pledge from Mr. Tishman, a number of other long-time friends and supporters of New Dramatists have pledged bequest gifts to the organization. At this time, these donors prefer to remain anonymous.
LEGACY GIFTS RECEIVED TO DATE:
Robert Anderson
Arnold Auerbach
Charles Bowden & Paula Laurence
Sumner Locke Elliott
Shannon D. Fullam
Rhea Gaisner
John Golden
Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
Nancy Hamilton
Ronald S. Konecky
Edwin Kruse
Dorothy Lindsay
Zilla Lippmann
Tad Mosel
Michaela O’Harra
Kerttu Shubert & John Shubert
In Memory of Susan Smith
Lily Turner -
Nocturnal Commissions Benefit
Nocturnal Commissions Benefit
Held on October 18, 2019, this year's Nocturnal Commissions annual fundraiser was a whirlwind evening sponsored by Isobel Konecky with dinner hosts Charlotte Ackert and Janet Cohn Slosberg. The mistress of ceremonies was the incomparable Nancy Giles. The evening's directors were Scott Ebersold, Emily Mendehlson, and Knud Adams, who worked with an adventurous cast to present the following pieces that were commissioned, written, rehearsed and performed the same evening:
ACOUSTICS by Sam Chanse
Commissioned by Tom Kasulka and Margaret MoniganHERE WE GO AGAIN by christopher oscar peña
Commissioned by Lyndsay Magid, Jill Matichak, and Josh AvinerWALLY NEEDS SOME RESTORATIVE JUSTICE by Kate Cortesi
Commissioned by Abbie Van NostrandIT’LL HAPPEN AGAIN written by Barbara Hammond & composed by Marc Chan
Commissioned by Isobel Konecky and Alan DavisA QUESTION by Lynn Rosen
Commissioned by Robin LynnJUAN AND KATIE RUN AWAY by Cori Thomas
Commissioned by Dori Berinstein, Luis Castro, Jason Cooper, and Nancy RoseSTRANGE HAPPENINGS by Brian Watkins
Commissioned by Susan Kraus and Joan Stacke GrahamIT’S GONNA BE GREAT by Rinne Groff
Commissioned by Tim Hopkins
Alum Sarah Ruhl, co-founder of the Lilly-Ruhl Fund to support childcare and life expenses for playwrights and their collaborators.
